Abandoned mines in Mercer County, West Virginia

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   32 8.6%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   219 59.2%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   8 2.2%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   23 6.2%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   10 2.7%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   78 21.1%

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. 12-A Mine

   Underground coal · Kitchekan Fuel Corp · MSHA ID 4603874
   Abandoned and Sealed 1982-09-13
2. Allied Chemical Rebuild Shop

   Facility coal · Allied Chemical Corp-Semet Solvay Div · MSHA ID 4605374
   Abandoned 1978-05-30
3. Ares Surface Mine

   Surface coal · Onyx Energy, LLC · MSHA ID 4609644
   Abandoned 2025-02-06
4. Auger No 3

   Surface coal · Old Mill Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4606733
   Abandoned 1985-09-16
5. Benafuels Mccomas Inc

   Facility coal · Benafuels Mc Comas Inc · MSHA ID 4606704
   Abandoned 1997-05-09
6. C & T No 2 Surface

   Surface coal · C & T Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 4605061
   Abandoned 1977-08-16
7. Crane Creek #11

   Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4604969
   Abandoned and Sealed 1984-08-15
8. Crane Creek #6

   Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601586
   Abandoned and Sealed 1985-01-03
9. Crane Creek No 11-B

   Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601442
   Abandoned 1976-08-11
10. Crane Creek No 12

    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605942
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-10-18
11. Crane Creek No 9

    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605941
    Abandoned and Sealed 1982-05-28
12. Flat Top Mine

    Underground coal · Princess Missy Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4604579
    Abandoned 1976-07-13
13. Leatherhead #2

    Underground coal · Wildcat Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605372
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-11-12
14. Leatherhead No 3 Mine

    Underground coal · Mc Kenzie Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605498
    Abandoned 1978-05-01
15. Lilly Strip

    Surface coal · G & I Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4602414
    Abandoned 1974-09-09
16. Lin-A-Quip No 2

    Underground coal · N R C Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606273
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-01-02
17. McComas Processing Facility

    Facility coal · Star Services, LLC · MSHA ID 4602827
    Abandoned 2007-11-08
18. MINE NO. 1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Bluestone Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 4605571
    Abandoned 1998-08-03
19. Modoc Mine

    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4602056
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-06-01
20. Nancy Kay Mine

    Underground coal · Unity Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4605832
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-08-15
21. No 1

    Underground coal · Egeria Mining Company · MSHA ID 4605192
    Abandoned and Sealed 1983-07-27
22. No 1

    Surface coal · Enviroserve Inc · MSHA ID 4608666
    Abandoned 2008-11-01
23. No 1 Auger

    Surface coal · Wells Auger Mining Inc · MSHA ID 4608281
    Abandoned 1994-06-21
24. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Hunsaker Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605015
    Abandoned 1977-03-08
25. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · L & M Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605162
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-04-14
26. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Rich Eagle Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605708
    Abandoned and Sealed 1981-06-14
27. No 1 Surface

    Facility coal · Hillbilly Mining Company · MSHA ID 4605347
    Abandoned 1984-05-24
28. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · Bmc Mining Company · MSHA ID 4608094
    Abandoned 1994-08-31
29. No 1 Ug

    Underground coal · Berry Coal Co · MSHA ID 4600789
    Abandoned 1972-01-28
30. No 10 Kitchekan Strip

    Surface coal · G & I Coal Company · MSHA ID 4603325
    Abandoned 1980-12-11
31. No 21 Surface

    Surface coal · Lillybrook Coal Company · MSHA ID 4606662
    Abandoned 1985-09-16
32. No 28 Ug

    Underground coal · W & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4600807
    Abandoned 1980-09-18
33. No 3 Mine

    Underground coal · Hunsaker Coal Company · MSHA ID 4605499
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
34. Operation No 1

    Surface coal · Benafuels Inc · MSHA ID 4606234
    Abandoned 1984-09-12
35. Permit No A5591 Auger

    Surface coal · Wrights Trucking & Mining Company · MSHA ID 4600812
    Abandoned 1977-11-14
36. Piedmont Strip 11-80

    Surface coal · Preservati Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 4606163
    Abandoned 1985-06-17
37. Poca Auger #9 Mine

    Surface coal · Kitchekan Fuel Corp · MSHA ID 4603302
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
38. Prep Plant

    Facility coal · Kitchekan Fuel Corp · MSHA ID 4603229
    Abandoned 1985-11-05
39. Springton 93-78 (Surface)

    Underground coal · I & S Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4605827
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
40. Strip

    Surface coal · Junior Pocahontas Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 4600794
    Abandoned 1972-11-15
41. Strip Mine

    Surface coal · Thompson Coal Company · MSHA ID 4600806
    Abandoned 1982-11-09
42. Thomas No 2

    Surface coal · Benafuels Inc · MSHA ID 4606327
    Abandoned 1984-09-12
43. Turkey Gap

    Surface coal · Coal Valley LLC · MSHA ID 4609149
    Abandoned 2011-09-22
44. Turkey Gap Mine

    Underground coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 4601443
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-11-01
45. West Virginia Magnetite Corp

    Facility metal/non-metal · West Virginia Magnetite Corp · MSHA ID 4606287
    Abandoned 1991-04-29

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• McDowell County 1,279
• Kanawha County 1,138
• Fayette County 1,082
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• Monongalia County 875
• Raleigh County 812
• Logan County 796
• Harrison County 670
• Wyoming County 623
• Boone County 586
• Mingo County 474
• Nicholas County 455

1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
   597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
   States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
   One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
   Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
   Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
   Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
   The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
   Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.